Automatic web page screenshots via script

From: smoker (amd_at_headru.sh)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:03:49 +0000

Hi,
I have been trying to find a way to grab screenshots of webpages via
scripting.

So far, I have htmldoc grabbing and converting the pages to pdf, then I am
using ImageMagick (& Ghostscript) to convert the pdf files to jpg images.

This works fairly well as far as grabbing and creating the images goes,
but :

1) Very cpu intensive (99% user cpu in top for 20 - 30 seconds)
2) htmldoc can't / won't wait for asp pages, java, etc to load on the page
before grabbing it.
3) Poor support for css, frames, etc.

I have tried making htmldoc produce postscript output, but with no
noticable difference in quality of output.

Somebody suggested using mozilla achieve my target, but as I am running
this process on a web server via perl scripting, I don't see how an X
program is going to help.

Anybody have any alternatives/suggestions ?

TIA

alan

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